Researcher

Daniela Irrera

Daniela Irrera (PhD in International Relations, University of Catania) is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Catania, where she teaches International Politics and Global civil society.She serves as Erasmus coordinator and Deputy Head for Research and Internationalization yat the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania.She has been Visiting Fellow at the Stony Brook University, New York; Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland; Fulbright Alumni at University of Delaware; Université Libre de Bruxelles; University of Oxford; New Bulgarian University, Sofia; Metropolitan University, Prague; Dogus University, Istanbul; Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun; Nanyang Technological University; National University Singapore, Aston University, Birmingham; John Jay College for Criminal Justice, New York.She has been awarded with a DAAD Fellowship at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and with a research grant at the European Union Center of Excellence, University of Alberta, Canada.She is Associate Faculty at IBEI, Barcelona, where she has taught within the MUNDUSMAPP Erasmus Mundus program.She is Secretary General of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP), convenor of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations, member of the ISA governing Council, President of the European Peace Research Association, associate editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, visiting professor at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek.She is the author of 4 monographs, 7 edited volumes, and more than 50 articles and book chapters in the areas of International Relations and EU politics, dealing with global terrorism, transnational organised crime, civil society and humanitarian affairs.